Altered Sardine Tins .... for Christmas!

  

I'm doing a three way altered sardine tin swap

with Christmas as the theme.

 

Each of us supplies our own tin, decorate it a bit,

pass it on to the second person who adds their

own festive layers and they then pass it on to 

the third person who finishes it off and returns

it to the first person - so we each get our own tin back.

 

The tin I supplied is as above.

All I did as a start was to completely cover it

with christmas sheet music and cut out from the

tin lid one set of angel wings with the Bigz die shown.

I embossed the wings too with an embossing folder.

 

 

This is how it left and it's now with the second

person - wonder what they'll do next!

 

 

In the meantime I've received a tin like this

 

 

For my contribution I added a Christmas Angel

to the inside.

 

 

The head is moulded from air dry clay.

The gown is fusible fibres and real 'Angel Hair' - what else!

She has a beaded halo and some jingly Christmas bells around her.

 

 

Finally, I added a glass nugget to the bottom,

the scrap of sheet music was attached with Glossy Accents.

 

 

 The tin will tomorrow be on it's way to the next person

for the final layers - wonder what they'll do 

with that funky frame.

 

 

This swap is being run from the 

Collabor-Art blog group.

Not another matchbox!

I didn't think I'd be altering any more matchboxes this year (after the 25 I did for A Swap For All Seasons a couple of months ago), but the final challenge of the year on my favourite Flickr swap group Art 'n' Soul is for just that ie "alter a matchbox and put a tiny surprise for your swap partner inside".

The matchbox I altered isn't one of the tiny ones - it measures approximately two by three inches (when closed).  I decorated it with scrapbook papers and rub ons from La Blanche, gold lace trim and a couple of holly buttons also duly altered.

My gift also isn't all that 'tiny'!  It's a stuffed fabric heart with wings and a charm.  The fabric I cut using Tim Holtz Alterations 'Heart Wings' die by Sizzix.  I thought this would make a nice little decoration for the Christmas tree.

On the other side I used a couple of the poinsetta flowers I made a few weeks ago with an embossed flower punch.  You can also see the reverse side of the heart and the red embossed mock velvet fabric.

Here's what it looks like inside the matchbox (the inside is decorated with Christmas sheet music coloured with shimmery gold Perfect Pearls, but you can't see it in the photo)

The closing date for this swap isn't until 11th December, so there's still plenty of time if you want to join in!

Thanks for looking x

Christmas Hearts

These wooden hearts which could be Christmas decorations are made from solid birch and measure 7cm long.  I got them from an on line shop called craftshapes.co.uk   I was actually looking for some small wooden hearts to make into charms for a valentine charm swap I've signed up for on PDA when I saw these hearts which were described as 'Christmas Hearts Wooden Gift Tags'.  I couldn't resist them!

I had them for about 3 weeks before I could bring myself to do anything with them as I loved the natural wood and jute hanger as it was.  Eventually though I painted, rubber stamped, embossed and decorated them with little bits and pieces and I think they'll look quite pretty hanging from a Christmas tree.